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WINFIELD BENTON, OF IOWA CITY,

Letten .Patent No. 89,388, dated April 27, 1869.

mPRovnMn'NT IN HAY-Lomme.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thelame.

p To all whom 'itmay concern.-

Be it known that I, WnvireLD BENTON, of Iowa City, in the county ofJohnson, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and improved Hay-Loader;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 .is a side viewof a hay-rack to which my improvement has been attached.

Figure 2 is a frontend view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding v parts.

to prevent the hay from projecting, and thus interfer-` ing with theoperation of the loader.

O is a bar, which is pivoted eccentrically to the front 'post orstandard b2, of the rack B.

'To the end of the shaft-arm of the bar O is attached one end of therope D, which passes around a guidepulley, E, attached to the bed-frameof the rack B.

The rope D passes along the tongue A, and to 'its bar, F.

' G is a rope, one end of' which is attached to the long arm ofthe barO, about half way between the end and pivoting-point of said bar.

The rope G passes through a keeper, f1, attached to the end ofthe shortarm of the bar F, passes along the upper side of said'bar F, and througha keeper, fi, attached'to the end of the long arm of said bar, and toits other end is attached a harpoon hay-fork.

In loading hay, the horse is backed up, bringing the loader into theposition shown in ig. 2. The fork is then thrust into the hay, andthehorse is started up, which brings the loader into the position shown ing.

A1, the weight of the loaded fork causing the long arm of the bar F toswing inward, over the rack B, yinto the position shown in iig. 1. Thefork is then tripped,

to discharge the hay, and the horse again backed up,

to raise another forkful.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as. new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved loader, formed by the combination of the rope D, pivoted barO, pivoted bar F, and rope G,

with each other and with an ordinary hay-rack, sub-- stantially asherein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses WIN FIELD DEN TON N. F. HARRLNGTON, E. G. FRACKER.

